Data-Mining for Terrorists Not ‘Feasible,’ DHS-Funded Study Finds: “Searching for terrorists in masses of electronic data doesn’t work and will lead to unacceptable privacy invasions, a government-funded commission reported Tuesday. Instead, the government should carefully evaluate how it uses the same technology as book recommendation software, and update the nation’s privacy laws.

The report entitled Protecting Individual Privacy in the Struggle Against Terrorists: A Framework for Assessment is available through the National Academic Press pages.

(Via Wired News.)